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Design with purpose
Every decision on the page can be explained: why this order, this emphasis, this word. Taste and reasoning are not opposites.
About the studio
Two people.One digitalecosystem.
Merqon Group is a digital studio founded in Athens in 2026 by Marios Leon Kontoulis and Stamatis Straitouris. Small on purpose, and built so that no part of a client’s digital presence is somebody else’s problem.
Why we exist
The gap between the work and the result
There is a pattern that costs businesses a great deal of money. A studio delivers a beautiful website and hands it to an agency that had no say in how it was built. The agency buys traffic for pages it cannot change. Months later everyone has done their job and the business has nothing to show for it.
Nobody owned the outcome. Merqon Group is built the other way round: the same people handle the positioning, the site, the campaigns and the measurement. It means taking fewer projects at a time. It also means there is nobody to point at when a result does not arrive, which concentrates the mind considerably.
Where we are starting from
A new studio
Merqon Group opened in 2026. We have no client case studies, no testimonials and no performance figures to show you, because we have not earned them yet — and we would rather say that plainly than dress up someone else’s numbers as our own.
What we are asking you to judge is the work itself: the thinking on this site, the concepts in our concept section, and how straight we are with you in the first conversation.
- Founded 2026, in Athens, Greece.
- Marios Leon Kontoulis and Stamatis Straitouris — the two people you speak to are the two who do the work.
- No client work published yet. The first projects are starting now.
- Currently accepting new projects, with the time to give each one properly.
The people
Who you are dealing with
Two named people, both of whom you can look up before you call. There is no account layer between you and the work: these are the two you speak to and the two who do it.
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Co-founder
Marios Leon Kontoulis
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Co-founder
Stamatis Straitouris
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Stamatis also runs Straitouris Visuals, an Athens photography, videography and web development studio covering sports, motorsport, music video and real estate work. The two studios are separate businesses run by the same person.
Athens, Greece. Reach either of us on +30 694 224 4918 or contact@merqongroup.com.
Principles
Four things we will not trade
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Built for performance
A site that looks expensive and loads slowly costs money. Speed and accessibility are held to a budget from the first wireframe.
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Marketing that connects
The advert, the page and the follow-up are one argument. Built by the same people, nothing is lost in the handover.
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Answerable work
Tracking goes in before launch, so what happens next is a matter of record rather than opinion — including when something needs changing.
Under one roof
Handled in-house
Six capabilities, one plan, no handover documents between companies that have never met.
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Website Creation
Custom websites for businesses, designed to establish a strong online presence and turn visitors into potential customers.
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Landing Pages
Focused landing pages designed around specific offers, campaigns and conversion goals.
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Digital Marketing
Digital marketing services designed to help businesses build visibility and attract potential customers online.
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Paid Advertising
Creation, management and optimisation of digital advertising campaigns, including platforms such as Google Ads and Meta Ads where appropriate.
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SEO
Website and on-page SEO foundations intended to improve search visibility.
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Conversion Optimisation
Improving website structure, messaging and user journeys with the goal of increasing conversions.
The studio, plainly
Where we stand
No project counts, budgets or return figures on this page — we have not produced any yet, and we will publish them when we have.
- 2026
- Founded
- A new studio in Athens, building its first client work now.
- Two
- People you deal with
- Marios Leon Kontoulis and Stamatis Straitouris. No account layer between you and the work.
- Six
- Capabilities in-house
- Websites, landing pages, marketing, advertising, SEO and conversion.
- Open
- Availability
- Currently accepting new projects, with time to give each one properly.
Questions
Straight answers
Who runs Merqon Group, and who would I actually be working with?
Marios and Stamatis run the studio and do the work. There is no account layer, so the people you speak to on the first call are the people designing, building and running the campaigns afterwards. Nothing gets handed to a junior once the project is signed.
Merqon Group is a new studio. Why hire you over an established agency?
Because of the work rather than the logo wall. The studio opened in 2026, which means it has no client case studies yet and will not borrow any. What being new buys you is attention: fewer projects at once, the people who designed the work also building it, and a strong reason to make the first projects genuinely good. Hiring an established agency is a reasonable choice — but ask them who will actually be doing your work.
How many projects does Merqon Group take on at once?
Deliberately few. A two-person studio that overbooks itself produces exactly the outcome it was hired to avoid, so the number of projects running at any time stays low enough that each gets proper attention. If we cannot start when you need to, we will say so rather than take the work and queue it.
What makes this different from a normal web design agency?
One team owns the whole chain instead of a slice of it. A studio that hands a finished site to a media agency with no say in how it was built produces the most common and most expensive failure in this industry: everybody does their job and the business has nothing to show for it. Holding positioning, build, campaigns and measurement together means there is nobody to point at when a result does not arrive.
Not answered here? Call +30 694 224 4918 or book a callback.
Start here
Work with the people who do the work.
A first conversation costs nothing and usually clarifies more than a proposal. Marios and Stamatis answer the phone.